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Visualization

Gif vs. interactive animation:

E.g., this gif Alaska Ice Melting (by Moris Zahtila) visually shows historical ice level changes without adding too much information on it.

E.g., this gif Alaska Ice Melting (by Moris Zahtila) visually shows historical ice level changes without adding too much information on it.

Visualization design:

Reproducibility

Science Communication

Telling a story with the article:

  1. Plot: supporting decision making by visual perception of numbers.
  2. Main character: social media data, or even more specific, social-media-related numbers.
  3. Solution: approach visualization of numbers that relate to a specific location in a novel way, which can be intuitively understood.
  4. Results: should imply intuitive perception of statistics, which can be challenging in tabular representations.

Structuring the paper/research according to Brown’s 8 questions:

  1. Frank Ostermann (social media), Manuel Lima (visualization, professional, Visual Complexity), Michael Lee Gleicher (visualization, academic, Task-Driven Comparison of Topic Models )
  2. I have thought of ways of how to visually represent geotagged numbers as gifs, namely from social media posts, in order to use them as additional explanatory element on a map. I have considered the GIS approach for processing the data and generating the visualization ideas.
  3. Gifs, or short animations, are straightforward and self-explaining animations that quickly drag users’ attention and motivate them to engage with the data exploration.
  4. I tried GIS approach because GIS tools do not require coding for data processing, and it is a quick way to visually show the distribution of data and play around with different visualizations.
  5. In theory the method should bring a novelty of communicating statistical data.
  6. In practice the visualization should support experts and citizens in decision making.
  7. The key benefits are quick understanding of targeted information of complex datasets that help in the decision making process.
  8. One of the next steps is to implement ideas as interactive tools and do usability tests to make concussions on the results.